GARY L. BACKES

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Sparta, Tennessee 38583

720-***-****

EXPERIENCE

July 2008 - CIGNA

April 2014 Application

Development Senior Specialist

o Design and Maintenance of

the Aggregate Accounting

System utilizing CICS.

Also worked with embedded SQL in

COBOL/DB2 and embedded SQL in

PLI/DB2 on the Aggregate

Accounting System in new development and

maintenance roles.

o Maintenance and new

development of INFORMATICA

workflows for ORACLE tables

in 8.6 and 9.1 environments in

the Billing and Finance area.

o Mapped business

functions to technical

implementations

on the Aggregate Accounting

system in a Systems Analyst

role.

o Identified technical

changes that needed to

be made to support

business process changes on the

Aggregate Accounting system

in a Systems Analyst role.

o Utilized TOAD to verify

ORACLE table data.

o Created INFORMATICA

deployment groups for

production installs.

o Created HARVEST packages to

promote INFORMATICA

components to production.

.

July 1996 - GREAT WEST LIFE AND ANNUITY

July 2008 Senior Programmer/Analyst

o Programmed and monitored the BILL

mainframe data transfer to ORACLE

data bases.

o Design and Maintenance of the

Aggregate Accounting System utilizing the

4GL language Objectstar in a CICS

environment. Also worked with

PLI/DB2 on the Aggregate

Accounting System in a new development

and maintenance role.

o Mapped business functions to

technical implementations

on the Aggregate Accounting

system in a Systems Analyst

role.

o Identified technical

changes that needed to

be made to support

business process changes on the

Aggregate Accounting system

in a Systems Analyst role.

September 1993 - COMSYS

July 1996 Computer Consultant

o Designed and

programmed a new release of an Accounts Receivable

system for a

leading telecommunications company. Utilized Cobol, OS

JCL, Endevor, and

NDM in a MVS

mainframe environment.

March 1992 - BANC ONE SERVICES CORPORATION

September 1993 Senior Programmer /Analyst II

o Project

Coordinator for converting new banks onto the

Installment Loan System.

o Analyzed,

designed, and programmed an automated interface

between the Customer Information

System

for Bank One, Texas and the Installment Loan

System in a batch COBOL environment.

o Provided

Production Support.

December 1990 - VICTORIA'S SECRET

CATALOGUE

March 1992 Programmer/Analyst

o Involved

in an AS/400 to IBM 3090 conversion.

o Performed

program changes and enhancements in a DB2

environment.

July 1989 - CONCORD ASSOCIATES,

INC

December 1990 ASSOCIATE

o Designed

IMS programs in the applications of historical and

commercial claims for a

leading

insurance company. Other areas of development

included variable life policies

and a

policy issue system.

November 1987 - TOLEDO EDISON

July 1989 Systems Analyst

o Analyzed

and designed the merging of two load management

systems.

Used

Method/1 to originate the project definition and

planning phaese of the project system.

o Developed

CICS applications that automated transactions to

update Edison's street lighting system.

o Maintained

an online /batch project management control system

that maintained employees hours.

o Designed

and programmed a litigation tracking system.

o Maintained

Edison's Records Management System for Edison's

street lighting system.

July 1985 - BOWLING GREEN STATE

UNIVERSITY

November 1987 Programmer /Analyst

o Developed

CICS programs to edit user input and to update the

employee personnel file.

Maintained CICS inquiry applications of the

employee personnel file.

o Designed

and maintained payroll, business office, accounts

payable and receivable, and

Bursars

office applications,

TECHNICAL Hardware IBM 3090, 4381,

4341, 370/158, DEC VAX (8700,8650) Cluster Micro

VAX 6210.

Software

OS/MVS, OS JCL, TSO/ISPF, CMS, ROSCOE, BMS, SDF,

VMS, Panavalet,

Librarian,

Batch COBOL, Micro Focus COBOL, Command Level

CICS, PLI DB2,

Microsoft

Word, COBOL DB2, Easytrieve DB2, Easytrieve Plus,

SQL Navigator,

Endevor, and NDM. INFORMATICA, TOAD, ULTRAEDIT,

ORACLE.

EDUCATION BOWLING GREEN STATE

UNIVERSITY, Bowling Green, Ohio

Bachelor's of

Science in Business Administration.

Major:

Management Information Systems.

REFERENCES Professional and personal

references available upon request.

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